Scrum Master Continuous Improvement

AMOS OLANREWAJU

Catonsville, Maryland

Phone No: 443-***-**** Email: ****.*****@*****.***

Linkedin Profile: www.linkedin.com/in/amos-olanrewaju-55a507256

Professional Summary

Certified Scrum Master with over 6 years of working experience, innovative and solutions focused servant-leader capable of effectively collaborating, facilitating, leading and coaching Scrum teams. Capable of bringing overwhelming enthusiasm, fostering self-management and awareness to projects, removal of impediments, keeping teams focused and delivering success in rapidly evolving and dynamic environments applying Scrum and SAFe frameworks.

Responsible for facilitating the adoption, implementation and sustainability of Agile processes, principles, and practices. Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products

Modeling core agile principles of collaboration, prioritization, team accountability and visibility; ensured consistent application of scrum methodologies across the enterprise.

Ensured the development teams are practicing core agile principles. Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

Organize and facilitate project planning, daily stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, sprint/release planning, demos and other Scrum-related meetings.

Ensures team(s) maintains focus on quality and continuous delivery. Dependencies and to support the team in risk management. Integrates Agile & Lean principles into team practices and work products

Coaches Product Owner/team on backlog refinement and prioritization. Utilizes team feedback and metrics (quality, delivery rate, etc.) to identify areas of opportunity and works with team to continuously improve

A dynamic self-motivated professional with a proven record of generating and building relationships, managing projects from concepts to completion

I have also demonstrated exceptional communication skills with proven ability to focus and communicate in high pressure situations.

Technical Skills

Cloud Computing: Azure Devops, Amazon Web Services (AWS) Identity Access Management, S3, EC2, VPC, Security group, NACL

Applications/Software: TSYS, IRIS, MS Office, VM ware, ServiceNow, JIRA, Confluence, Rally

Programming Languages: SQL

Collaboration Tools: Slack, Teams, Mural board

Core Competencies

SDLC/Agile/Scrum Methodologies

Project/Product Management

Data Analysis/Reporting

Servant Leadership

Strategic Planning

QA/Change Management

Process Improvement

DevOps

Team building

Requirements Gathering

Communication Skills

Problem/Conflict Resolution

Education

M.SC, Business Analytics, Arizona State University, Arizona. In-View

B.Sc. Computer Science, Higher Institute of Science, Economics & Applied Biology (IUSEBA), Parakou, Republic of Benin. October 2015

Certifications

Leading SAFe, Scrum Master Certified

Certified Scrum Master (CSM), (Scrum Alliance)

Certified AWS Practitioner

CompTIA Security+

Professional Experience

Eagle Bank, Maryland March 2020 - Present

Scrum Master

Responsibilities:

Work with the Product owner to align teams with the product vision, sprint goals, and other necessary information

Facilitate groups of 10 or more and coach multiple teams across the product

Create an environment of collaboration within the teams that allows for open dialogue and productive solutions for resolving conflicts

Champion continuous improvement activities to reduce waste and increase productivity; coach organization to conduct continuous improvement events

Communicate organizational impediments to leadership; clear impediments for the team

Embrace the concept of continuous learning in your own journey and instill the same in the team(s) you coach

Coach product owners in creation and maintenance of the product backlog, including empirical planning

Appreciate the depths of Agile practices and principles, help teams appreciate them

Teach systems thinking and servant leadership

Bring ideas from professional facilitation, coaching, conflict management, mediation and so on to help the team become a high-performance team

The Bizzel Group, Maryland March 2018 - February 2020

Scrum Master

Guided project meetings and other client engagements to meet customer expectations

Communicated effectively with both large and small teams of internal and external project stakeholders to set and manage client expectations and timelines throughout the project.

Prepared and delivered frequent updates, maintain positive customer relationships, and ensure a positive customer journey

Prepared status updates with key milestones and deliverables, next steps, risks, and project timeline

Managed timeline and scope ensuring customer expectations are met

Communicated difficult/sensitive information tactfully and resolved or escalated issues in a timely fashion.

Understood and validated the details of deliverables as provided by project resources

Lead daily, weekly, and monthly internal meetings with team members and internal stakeholders

Facilitated all agile ceremonies

Helped team moved from a storming to high-performing team.

Verizon, Maryland February 2016-March 2018

Scrum Master

Developed Gap Analysis documentation to define customers' business needs

Support the development of the application’s business requirements and prepare effective test activities via automation first / manual as required.

Worked with the client to identify the priorities of the backlog

Translated business requirements to detailed user, functional, and systems requirements, using agile

Tracked and communicate team velocity and other development metrics with, and to all affected teams and management

Ensured the development teams are practicing core agile principles

Updated agile tracking systems to provide transparency on product and sprint backlogs

Determined and removed all obstacles that may interfere with the ability of the team to deliver assigned goals

Maintained relevant metrics that helped the team see how they are doing

Promoted continuous improvement and helped teams to increase productivity

Served as an advisor to teams; leading by example

Performed ongoing assessments of the teams' Scrum maturity to inform ongoing support decisions

Partnered with Product Owners to ensure vision and roadmap were well-defined and understood.

Assured Partners, Maryland April 2015 – December 2015

Data Analyst

Used automated tools to extract data from primary and secondary sources

Removed corrupted data and fixing coding errors and related problems

Developed and maintained databases, data systems – reorganized data in a readable format

Performed analysis to assess quality and meaning of data

Filtered Data by reviewing reports and performance indicators to identify and correct code problems

Used statistical tools to identify, analyze, and interpret patterns and trends in complex data sets that could be helpful for the diagnosis and prediction

Assigned numerical value to essential business functions so that business performance can be assessed and compared over periods of time.

Analyzed local, national, and global trends that impact both the organization and the industry

Prepared reports for the management stating trends, patterns, and predictions using relevant data

Worked with programmers, engineers, and management heads to identify process improvement opportunities, proposed system modifications, and devised data governance strategies.

Prepared final analysis reports for the stakeholders to understand the data-analysis steps, enabling them to take important decisions based on various facts and trends.

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